Often in arranging the layout of a card I will select more than one button and then using the PI, choose "size" and then align the buttons that are selected. My problem is that I run into situations in which I cannot select more than one button. I don't know why. I have to move them one at a time and cannot do any alignment. It might be a difference between card buttons and bg buttons, I am not sure but thought I would post this for advice before struggling on with this.

What I described is the inability to choose buttons on the background, not trying to do both cd and bg btns at the same time. I chose "edit background" and the the buttons on the bg I cannot select as a group - only one at a time.

rpitcairn wrote:What I described is the inability to choose buttons on the background, not trying to do both cd and bg btns at the same time. I chose "edit background" and the the buttons on the bg I cannot select as a group - only one at a time.

You're probably using the universal tool, the white arrow.Look at which tool is selected in the tools palette.

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When the editbg is false and you type ctrl-tab for switching the tool, if the mouse is over a bg object, MPI will choose the universal tool instead of the pointer tool. This allows editing bg objects without having to switch the edibg (handy if you wish to move a bg object relatively to cd objects). But the universal tool allows selecting only one object at a time.So, if you switched to bg edition (cmd-B) you need to select the pointer tool which allows selecting several objects at the same time.